The Syntax Of Native American Languages
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The Syntax Of Native American Languages
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Author : Eung-Do Cook
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-13
The Syntax Of Native American Languages written by Eung-Do Cook and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Preliminary Material /Eung-Do Cook and Donna B. Gerdts --Themes and Absolutives: Some Semantic Rules in Tzotzil /Judith Aissen --Kwakwala Syntax and the Government-Binding Theory /Stephen R. Anderson --Moving Interrogatives without an Initial +wh Node in Tupí /Frank Roberts Brandon and Lucy Ferreira Seki --Clause Reduction in Ancash Quechua /Peter Cole --Choctaw Switch-Reference and Levels of Syntactic Representation /William D. Davies --An Expression of Coreference in Bella Coola /Philip W. Davis and Ross Saunders --A Relational Analysis of Halkomelem Causals /Donna B. Gerdts --Raising to Subject in Moose Cree: A Problem for Subjacency /Deborah James --Empty Categories, Rules of Grammar, and Kwakwala Complementation /Robert D. Levine --Switch-Reference and Subject Raising in Seri /Eung-Do Cook and Donna B. Gerdts --Floating Quantifiers in Pima /Pamela Munro --On the Nonergativity and Intransitivity of Relative Clauses in Labrador Inuttut /Lawrence R. Smith --Index /Eung-Do Cook and Donna B. Gerdts --Contents of Previous Volumes /Eung-Do Cook and Donna B. Gerdts.
The Languages Of Native North America
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Author : Marianne Mithun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-06-07
The Languages Of Native North America written by Marianne Mithun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-07 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
American Indian Languages
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Author : Lyle Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-21
American Indian Languages written by Lyle Campbell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.
The Languages And Linguistics Of Indigenous North America
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Author : Carmen Dagostino
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-09-05
The Languages And Linguistics Of Indigenous North America written by Carmen Dagostino and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Linguistic Ideologies Of Native American Language Revitalization
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Author : David Leedom Shaul
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Linguistic Ideologies Of Native American Language Revitalization written by David Leedom Shaul and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Social Science categories.
The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages. While this model fits the sovereign status of many Native American groups, it does not meet the linguistic ideology of Native American communities, and creates projects and products that do not engage the communities which they are intended to serve. The concern over heritage language loss has generated since 1990 enormous activity that is supposed to restore full private and public function of heritage languages in Native American speech communities. The thinking goes: if you do what the volume terms the "Lost Language Ghost Dance," your heritage language will flourish once more. Yet the heritage language only flourishes on paper, and not in any meaningful way for the community it is trying to help. Instead, this volume proposes a model of Native American language revitalization that is different from the national/official language model, one that respects and incorporates language variation, and entertains variable outcomes. This is because it is based on Native American linguistic ideologies. This volume argues that the cookie-cutter application of the official language ideology is unethical because it undermines the intent of language revitalization itself: the continued daily, meaningful use of a heritage language in its speech community.
Native American Language Ideologies
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Author : Paul V. Kroskrity
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2009-04-15
Native American Language Ideologies written by Paul V. Kroskrity and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Beliefs and feelings about language vary dramatically within and across Native American cultural groups and are an acknowledged part of the processes of language shift and language death. This volume samples the language ideologies of a wide range of Native American communities--from the Canadian Yukon to Guatemala--to show their role in sociocultural transformation. These studies take up such active issues as "insiderness" in Cherokee language ideologies, contradictions of space-time for the Northern Arapaho, language socialization and Paiute identity, and orthography choices and language renewal among the Kiowa. The authors--including members of indigenous speech communities who participate in language renewal efforts--discuss not only Native Americans' conscious language ideologies but also the often-revealing relationship between these beliefs and other more implicit realizations of language use as embedded in community practice. The chapters discuss the impact of contemporary language issues related to grammar, language use, the relation between language and social identity, and emergent language ideologies themselves in Native American speech communities. And although they portray obvious variation in attitudes toward language across communities, they also reveal commonalities--notably the emergent ideological process of iconization between a language and various national, ethnic, and tribal identities. As fewer Native Americans continue to speak their own language, this timely volume provides valuable grounded studies of language ideologies in action--those indigenous to Native communities as well as those imposed by outside institutions or language researchers. It considers the emergent interaction of indigenous and imported ideologies and the resulting effect on language beliefs, practices, and struggles in today's Indian Country as it demonstrates the practical implications of recognizing a multiplicity of indigenous language ideologies and their impact on heritage language maintenance and renewal.
Studies In American Indian Languages
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Author : Leanne Hinton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998
Studies In American Indian Languages written by Leanne Hinton and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages, but Uto-Aztecan, Penutian, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Mayan, and other groups are also represented, with pieces on phonology, syntax, the lexicon, and discourse.
Handbook Of Heritage Community And Native American Languages In The United States
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Author : Terrence G. Wiley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-03
Handbook Of Heritage Community And Native American Languages In The United States written by Terrence G. Wiley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-03 with Education categories.
Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.
The Indigenous Languages Of The Americas
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Author : Lyle Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Indigenous Languages Of The Americas written by Lyle Campbell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
Native American Languages Act Of 1991
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Native American Languages Act Of 1991 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Education categories.